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THE PHILOSOPHY OF FOOD. 



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THE 



Philosophy of Food; 

A TREATISE 



SHOWING THAT THERE ARE THREE KINDS OF VEGETABLE, 
FRUIT AND ANIMAL FOOD, VIZ: STAMEN, FRUIT AND 
GERM. 

AND, ALSO, THAT EACH KIND IN ONE IS LIKE THE SAME 
KIND IN THE OTHER TWO: THAT IS, VEGETABLE 
STAMEN FOOD IS LIKE FRUIT AND ANIMAL STAMEN 
FOOD, AND VICE VERSA; AND VEGETABLE FRUIT FOOD 
IS LIKE FRUIT AND ANIMAL FRUIT FOOD, AND VICE 
VERSA; AND VEGETABLE GERM FOOD IS LIKE FRUIT 
AND ANIMAL GERM FOOD, AND VICE VERSA. 

AND, ALSO, THE PROPER STAGE OF GROWTH AT WHICH 
ANIMAL FOOD SHOULD BE USED. 

AND, ALSO, HOW TO TELL SWEET, TENDER, WHOLESOME 
MEAT FROM MEAT THAT IS RANK, TOUGH AND UN- 
WHOLESOME. ALSO, HOW TO RAISE, AND WHY IT IS 
CHEAPER TO RAISE THE FIRST MENTIONED KIND OF 
MEAT THAN THE LAST. 

AND, ALSO, THE LIABILITY TO AND DANGER OF USING TOO 
MUCH OF THE GERM OR GRAIN KIND OF FOOD. 



Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1877, by O. W. Morley, in the office of 
the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 



THE PHILOSOPHY OF FOOD. 



Stamen food is in a stalk, or a root, or an animal. Nature 
intends it to nourish the part of a stalk, or a root, or an 
animal that is unsuitable for food, while a stalk, or a root, 
or an animal is growing and bearing seed. 

Fruit food is the fruit of a stalk, or a root, or a tree, or- 
an animal. Nature intends it to nourish the seed that a 
stalk, or a root, or a tree, or an animal bears with fruit, 
while the seed is growing and becoming a stalk, or a root, 
or a tree, or an animal. 

Germ food is the seed of a stalk, or a root, or a tree, or 
an animal. Nature intends it to grow and become a stalk, 
or a root, or a tree, or an animal. 

The Stamen kind of vegetable food is cabbage, cauli- 
flower, parsnip, beet, etc. ; that is in a stalk, or root. Na- 
ture intends it to nourish the part of a stalk, or a root that 
is unsuitable for food, while a stalk, or a root is growing 
and bearing seed. 

Tlie Fruit kind of vegetable food is squash, egg-plant, 
tomato, etc. ; that is the fruit of a stalk. Nature intends 
it to nourish the seed that a stalk bears with fruit, while 
the seed is growing and becoming a stalk. 

The Germ kind of vegetable food is wheat, rice, and all 
kinds of grain that is the seed of a stalk. Nature intends 
it to grow and become a stalk. 

The Stamen kind of fruit food is pine apple, that is in a 
root. Nature intends it to nourish the part of a root that 
is unsuitable for food while a root is growing and bearing 
seed. Pine apples grow in the ground, from the seed, like 
parsnips, beets, etc. 

The Fruit kind of fruit food is apple, peach, berry, 
melon, etc. ; that is the fruit of a stalk, or a tree. Nature 
intends it to nourish the seed that a stalk, or a tree bears 
with fruit, while the seed is growing and becoming a stalk 
or a tree. 

The Germ kind of fruit food is all kind of nuts that is 
the seed of a stalk or a tree. Nature intends it to grow 
and become a stalk or a tree. 

The Stamen kind of animal food is beef, mutton, veal, 
lamb, chicken, duck, turkey, white-fish, shad, salmon, etc., 



that is an a-Qimal, Nature intends it to nourisli that part 
of an animal that is unsuitable for food while an animal is 
growing and bearing seed. 

The Fruit kind of animal food is all kinds of milk that 
is the fruit of an animal. Nature intends it to nourish the 
seed that an animal bears with fruit while the seed is 
growing and becoming an animal. 

The Germ kind of animal food is all kind of eggs that 
is the seed of an animal. Nature intends it to grow and 
become an animal. 

Thus the three kinds of vegetable, fruit and animal food 
are alike in each. 

There is only one article that is used for food that is not 
(wholly) like one of the three kinds ; that is potatoes. 
They are partly like each, but wholly, like neither. They 
are very valuable and can be used for all the purposes that 
is required of vegetable food. 

When animals are at the stage in their growth that 
cabbages, pine apples, cauliflowers, parsnips, etc., — the 
stalks and roots which yield the same kind of vegetable 
and fruit food — are in when they are used, which is just 
before cabbage, pine apples, etc., commence to grow to 
bear seed, which stage in the growth of animals is just 
before their organs of propagation commence to have effect, 
which is when they are at the age at which they are 
weaned, the flesh is sweeter, tenderer and richer than at 
any time before or after. 

While an animal is growing from the age at which it is 
weaned into the age at which it bears seed, the substance 
that gives the flesh flavor and value for food, is absorbed in 
nourishing the animal while it is undergoing the change. 
Like the head, or part of a cabbage that is used for food, 
being absorbed in nourishing the stalk while the cabbage 
is bearing seed. And the muscles and flesh of an animal 
become tough and dry, somewhat like the stalk of a cab- 
bage when the seed is ripe. 

An animal is not all exhausted by once bearing as a ca.b- 
bage is. Because an animal has more vitality than a cab- 
bage. But once bearing, or even the effect of the organs 
of propagation upon an animal without bearing, is suflB- 



cient to exhaust the rich flavor and substance of the flesh 
and to leave it tough, dry, and unwholesome. 

Cabbages, pine apples, etc., the stalks and roots which 
yield the Stamen kind of vegetable and fruit food, where 
a part of a stalk or a root is used, are made short lived, 
which makes them tender so that they can be used. 

If animals are castrated before their organs of propaga- 
tion commence to have effect, the flesh does not become 
tough and rank ; when they are developed in size and 
weight the flesh is coarser and contains less nourishment 
than when they are at the age at which they are weaned, 
but it is sweet, juicy, tender, rich and wholesome. 

The difference between the flesh from a castrated animal 
and the flesh from an animal wherein the organs of propa- 
gation have had effect is not manifest to the eye. The 
flesh from a fat heifer looks as plump and rich as the flesh 
from a fat steer ; but it shrinks more by cooking because 
it contains more waste, and the lean part is tougher, and 
dryer, and has a poorer flavor. The difference is most 
discernable in the fat part of the flesh, which from the 
thriftiest, fattest heifers is rank and unwholesome, and 
unsuitable for food ; but from a steer it is, like the fat part 
of the flesh from an animal when it is at the age at which 
it is weaned, sweet and wholesome, and just what is desir- 
able to accompany the lean. 

A little observation will enable any one to tell by the 
taste of the fat part of the flesh what kind of an animal it 
is from. 

The bulk and weight of food is no indication of the 
amount of nourishment that it contains. A quart of poor 
milk weighs more than a quart of rich milk. On the other 
side, apples that are hard, fine-grained, and rich in flavor 
and nourishment, weigh more and contain more nourishr 
ment than apples of equal size that are soft, coarse-grained- 
and poor in flavor and nourishment. 

The amount of ground _or feed required to produce food 
indicates the amount of nourishment it contains. Trees that 
bear hard, fine-grained, rich apples, do not yield as many as 
trees yield that bear soft, coarse-grained, poor apples. 



Cows that yield ricli milk either consume more feed or 
yield less milk than cows that yield poor milk. 

If a steer and a heifer are fattened together and con- 
sume equal quantities of feed, the amount of flesh that 
they produce is not equal because the conditions under 
which they are fattened are unequal. The organs of pro- 
pagation are a continual drain upon the heifer, and a por- 
tion of the nourishment or feed consumed by her is used 
to sustain them. All the feed consumed by the steer is 
used to build up his size and weight. When they are at 
the greatest size and weight that they are capable of 
attaining, the steer is the largest and heaviest without 
having consumed any more feed. This, with there being 
so much waste in the flesh of a heifer, especially as the fat 
part is unsuitable for food, makes it far more profitable to 
use animals that are castrated than animals of either sex 
that are not unsexed, for producing flesh. 

The proper meat to use for food is the flesh from any 
animal that has arrived nearly at, but that has not mate- 
rially passed the age at which it is weaned ; and the flesh 
from any animal that was castrated at that age, such as a 
steer for beef, a wether for mutton, and a barrow for pork. 

The fat that is around the kidneys and on the entrails of 
animals, is not suitable for food from any animal. It is 
not at all like the fat flesh. 

All animals that are kept for breeding can be used for that 
purpose until they are incapable of reproduction ; then the 
muscles and flesh are so hard, tough and dry that they aie 
unsuitable for any purpose, and all that is left of such 
animals, except the hides, can be buried without any 
infringement upon economy. 

Of the Fruit kind of animal food, the cream from the 
milk only is suitable for food; the core of an apple, the 
entrails of a squash, and skimmed milk are made to serve 
the eame purpose in the growth of the seed or animal, and 
neither is suitable food for man. There is only one period 
in the growth of man when the whole of milk is suitable 
food for him ; that is from birth unto the age at which he is 
weaned. After that the stomach gradually undergoes a 
change which makes it unadapted to digest milk. This 



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cliange is very slow in completing, and children can use 
milk until tliey are from twelve to fifteen years of age with- 
out any apparent disagreeableness. 

The Germ kind of food is composed of two substances, 
to-wit : The seed that grows, and a substance that nature 
intends to nourish the seed when it is grov/ing. Eggs will 
show the parts plainer than grains or nuts, because there 
is so much difference in the color of the parts in eggs. 
The white part is the seed that grows ; the yellow part, or 
the yolk, is the substance that nourishes the seed while it 
is growing or hatching. 

All of the wheat except; the bran is suitable for food. 
The bran is like the shell of an egg or a nut, too hard for 
the human stomach. 

Animals that are to be used for food are constructed 
entirely different from animals that are to be used for 
work. 

Quietness is essential in an animal that is to make flesh, 
and everytliing in the construction of a steer is calculated 
to make him love to be quiet. His muscles are tender and 
indentable, which makes them suitable for food and unable 
to endure the strain of work, and they are not very elastic, 
which with his small cords and bones, short, slender legs, 
and straight heavy quarters, give him a slow, awkward 
gait, and makes him dislike to travel. His feet are split 
which makes them less adapted to traveling, and to. stand 
the pressure of heavy drawing than if they were whole ; 
his hoof is thin and light, barely sufficient to protect his 
feet from the wet and cold, not calculated to protect them 
from becoming sore by usei and unadapted to hold a shoe 
so that he can be used for work because it does not grow- 
any after the feet have attained their full growth. His 
hide is thick and the pores are small and unyielding 
which makes it difficult for perspiration to take place at 
more than an ordinary rate, which is very slow, and if he 
is worked or exerted sufficient to cause heat and sweat he 
is oppressed by it, because so little passes out ; his hide 
makes thick, tough, firm, and strong leather, that answers 
far better for making harness and for other manufacturing 
purposes, where such leather is needed, than leather made 



from the hide of any other animal, and his hide being as it 
13 keeps him from running off his flesli while fattening, 
because he is distressed liefore he can exert himself suffi- 
cient to have any effect. When he is well fattened he 
yields an abundance of tallow, which is necessary for 
finishing leather and for other manufacturing purposes. 
He has a cud which is to raise his food after he first swal- 
lows it, and chew or grind it over and prepare it perfectly 
for quickly and economically entering into his system, and 
when he is well f*-d he loves to quietly and contentedly 
chew his cud and stand still. 

Activity and strength are essential in an animal that is 
to work ; and everything in the construction of a horse is 
calculated to make him active and strong, and to love 
exertion ; his muscles are hard and tough, which makes 
them unsuitable for food and able to endure the strain of 
work, and they are very elastic, which, with his large cords 
and bones, long, powerfully made legs, and sloping quar- 
ters, gives him a fast, easy gait and he loves to travel. 
His feet are whole which makes them better adapted to 
traveling and to stand the pressure of heavy drawing than 
if they were split; his hoof is thick and heavy, protecting 
his feet so that they do not become tender and sore by use 
and it grows very fast, even after the feet have obtained 
their full growth, which makes it adapted to hold a shoe 
and still further protect his feet and increase his foothold, 
because the part worn by the shoe nails can be pared off 
at each time of setting a shoe, and the nails driven into 
the new grown part ; if the hoof did not grow and the 
nails were driven into one place constantly, they would 
wear it so that it would not hold them. His hide is thin 
and the pores are large and yielding which makes it 
posf<ible for perspiration to take place rapidly, and when he 
is worked or exerted sufficient to cause heat and sweat he 
is not oppressed by it because it passes freely out ; his 
hide makes poor leather because it is thin, porus, and 
stretchy. There is but little fat about him, even when he 
is the fattest and plumpest, because his flesh is mostly lean, 
such as is required for muscular exertion. He has no cud, 
and when he is well fed he is ready for exertion and work, 
and ill at ease if he is obliged to remain quiet ; he loves to 



work because it relieves liim from inertia, and makes him 
grow active, strong, and intelligent. 

The feed given to animals consists of the Stamen, Fruit, 
and Germ kinds also. 

The Stamen kind is h%y, that is in a stalk. Nature 
intends the substance that gives the stalk value for feed to 
nourish the stalk while it is growing and bearing seed. 

The Fruit kind is pumpkins, that is the fruit of a stalk. 
Nature intends it to nourish the seed that a stalk bears 
with fruit, when the seed is growing and becoming a stalk. 

The Germ kind is corn, oats, and all kinds of grain that 
is the seed of a stalk. Nature intends it to grow and 
become a stalk. 

Everyone that understands how to feed a horse is aware 
that a proper amount of grain is good for a horse, but that 
too much grain and too little hay weakens the system. 

Food has the same effect on man. If he uses too much 
of the Germ kind, grain, nuts and eggs, and too little of 
the Stamen kind, meat, fish, pine apple, cabbage, parsnip, 
etc., his system will not retain proper strength. 

What man requires is a proper amount of Stamen food, 
meat, poultry, fish, pine apple, cabbage, cauliflower, pars- 
nip, etc., to give his system bone, muscle, and stamina, and 
a proper amount of Fruit food, cream, tomato, squash, 
apple, peach, berry, etc., to keep his system in order, and a 
proper amount of Germ food, eggs, grain, and nuts, to give 
his system heart and solidity. 

Tea and coffee contain considerable food ; the former of 
the Stamen kind, and the latter of the Germ kind. 

The reason why tea is relished so well by people who 
live on bread, and eggs, and the fruit kind of vegetable 
fruit and animal food, and why it is so good for them, is 
because it furnishes the system, to some extent, with the 
Stamen food that is necessary to sustain it. 

Butter and sugar, although not containing any substan- 2. 
tial nourishment, are very useful for dressing. They are 
to food what paint is to wood ; they make food better and 
more durable than it is without them. 



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